Cloudspotter Flats (*)
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pmbdp
I was startled to hear this speaker call herself a cloudspotter (see the Abstract). I am sure CAS will sympathise with her, but also we might join her in her vision for public spaces to embrace Cloudspotters.
https://shop.twobadmice.com/product/cloud-watching/
(you can click the picture for an enlarged view).
* Topic title with thanks to the tune Hobo Flats, by Quincy Jones (I think) and also recorded by Jimmy Smith. I find the tune title enigmatic – is it a reference to a vagrant, Hoboken (Sinatra), to a musical key, to flatlands, to apartments….
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Hygge, in this country (or around New York City) a flat is most often a deflated tire. So the title of the piece must be referring to flat notes. You made me curious, I listened to to it. I hear a train whistle and the sound of a train passing at high speed. Musically, I suspect you need flat notes to simulate the Doppler effect. And I never heard anyone refer to Hoboken as hobo, so it must be about the homeless vagrants traveling by train. Maybe they are lying on their backs on flat cars watching the sky.
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